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Politics & elections, 1936

2,362 stories in Sydney's papers · page 58 of 119

State Parliament. Port Kembla Development

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 July 1936 · page 10

The bill ratifying the agreement with Australian Iron and Steel, Ltd., for the sale of land at Port Kembla, where large works are to be established, was opposed at every stage…

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No New Houses of Parliament

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 July 1936 · page 4

The building of new Houses of Parliament has been deferred owing to lack of funds, and the number of more urgent works to which the Government…

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State Parliament Stay Orders Farmers' Relief Amending Bill

The Sun · Friday 3 July 1936 · page 10

MOVING the second reading of the Farmers' Relief Amendment Debt Adjustment Bill in the Legislative Assembly to-day,…

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Banking System. Mr. C. R. McKerihan's Plan. Parliament As Arbiter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 July 1936 · page 12

The President of the Rural Bank (Mr. C. R. McKerihan), in an address to the Institute of Public Administration at Science House yesterday, made suggestions for altering the…

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State Parliament Relief Bill Passed All Stages (Continued from Page 10)

The Sun · Friday 3 July 1936 · page 19

With blessings showered upon it from both sides of the House, the amending Farmers' Relief Bill was passed through all stages on the…

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State Parliament. Port Kembla Development. Labour Opposition. Income Tax Management Bill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 July 1936 · page 8

The bill ratifying the agreement between the Government and the Australian Iron and Steel, Ltd., was passed through all stages in the Legislative Assembly last night. Strong opposition against the agreement was voiced by…

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State Parliament in Fury House at Odds Kembla Bill Assembly Scene

The Sun · Friday 3 July 1936 · page 13

ANGER burst last evening in the Legislative Assembly like a thunder clap. The ill-ventilated and musty…

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Newpaper Men and Police. Humour in Victoria. Speech in Parliament. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 July 1936 · page 16

Mr. McKenzie (Lab.) had the Legislative Assembly in laughter to-day when, during the debate on the Addressin-Reply, he related how Melbourne…

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State Parliament Spooner Fails to Make Stand Surprise Action in House Moves Reading Of Disputed Bill Main Roads

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 July 1936 · page 8

SHOWING how he had got from under, the Minister for Local Government, Mr. Spooner, disappointed the rank and file…

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United Front in Municipal Elections Communists and A.L.P. Unite

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 3 July 1936 · page 3

ADELAIDE, June 28.—Great significance is attached to a meeting between the North Adelaide unit of the Communist Party and the…

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State Parliament. Assembly's Work Finished

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 July 1936 · page 23

Yesterday the Legislative Assembly finished its programme of bills, and has now gone into recess while the Upper House considers the measures sent to it…

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State Parliament. Farmers' Relief. Debt Adjustment and Advances. Amending Legislation Passed by Assembly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 July 1936 · page 18

The period for the granting of stay orders to farmers is to be extended for a further 12 months by legislation now before the State Parliament. In his speech on the second reading of the Farmers' Relief…

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State Parliament U.A.P. Man Joins Labor In Fight For Farmers Attitude of Govt. Perturbs Talk Of 'Farming The Farmers' Their Debt

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 July 1936 · page 8

ATTACKING the Government's rural policy in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Mr. Mair (U.A.P., Albury) condemned the extension of…

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Deputy's Election. Annulled by French Chamber. PARIS, July 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 July 1936 · page 17

By 285 voles to 193, the Chamber of Deputies to-day annulled the election as a deputy for Corsica of M. Chiappe, the former chief of the Paris police…

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In Equity. (Before the Chief Judge, Mr. Justice Long Innes.) Election and Estoppel. Nisbet v Kebblewhite

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 July 1936 · page 14

Edgar Stanley Nisbet, the trustee, was plaintiff in an originating summons taken out for determination of a question which had arisen in administration of the trusts of…

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Dublin Municipal Elections Fianna Fail Loses Dublin

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 July 1936 · page 1

THE Fianna Fall lost ground to the Centre parties in the Dublin municipal elections, when the Cosgrave Party captured a Fianna Fall…

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G.N. Candidates At Work

The Sun · Monday 6 July 1936 · page 2

Galloping next to the rails on the course proper where the track was fairly good, the G.N. Hurdles candidates King colossus (J. Barry) and Etymology (Av[?]es), at…

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Furtiveness In Parliament

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 July 1936 · page 6

PROBABLY, when it is all worked out, special circumstances do warrant the extra £100 tax exemption which…

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Jobless Seize Parliament

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 July 1936 · page 3

EDMONTON, Tuesday.--A thousand unemployed men have taken possession of Alberta's Parliament House, and they refuse to leave until the Social…

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Parliament's Respect. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 July 1936 · page 15

Moving the suspension of the sittings of the House of Assembly to-day, in respect for the memory of the late Mr. Melrose, the Attorney-General (Mr. Jeffries) said that…

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